On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case. > > On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Holger Levsen writes ("Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if > this is right)"): > > > I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. > > > Apologies for that. > > > > I don't think it is, probably. > > > > This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg > > database ? Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ? > > I assume not directly but with dpkg.
Precisely popularity contest use the output of dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n' However may be it does not check if dpkg-query return an error status. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]